Seat Laminations

One of the things that I have noticed when looking at other people's boats is the stark contract between different woods in the boat. While the Fijian Kauri that I used goes very well with the marine ply, I wanted to ensure all of the seats blended together and looked to be made of the same wood.

To achieve this I laminated thin planks of Fijian Kauri onto the forward and rear seats to cover up the ply tops. This had the added bonus of being able to get a nice tight finish at the edge as trying to achieve this with the ply alone is a difficult job.

The planks were made by splitting a 19mm board in three and then using the thicknesser to bring them down to 3mm. Once all of the boards were shaped I set them in epoxy glue and weighted them down with bricks. Once set the trim bit on the router was used to aligned the front with the bulkhead ready for the edging piece to be added.

Another little trick to used at this stage is to mix some wood flour with your glue. By doing this your glue lines start to look like wood and blend in rather than the ugly white colour of the glue that you will never hide. Just mix enough in to change the colour to what you want, it will not change any as it dries.